T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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There is always pressure in football.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I don't really yell at people.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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Trump doesn't go a day without worrying me. It seems like every day there's something new.
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Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.
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Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
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It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
